The National Archives needs volunteers to help transcribe historical documents written in cursive. This citizen-led initiative makes American history more accessible to researchers and genealogists.

Do you remember the last time you write in cursive? Do you still know how to read it? If so, the National Archives are ...

To engage citizen volunteers and make the American story more accessible, the National Archives is enlisting everyone it can in transcribing vast Revolutionary War pension files. (This also caught the ...

Reading cursive is a superpower,” said Suzanne Isaacs, a community manager with the National Archives Catalog in Washington, ...

A lot of old records at the National Archives are written in longhand, but fewer people can read cursive. The institution is ...

If you are talented at reading cursive handwriting, the National Archives could really use your help with transcribing and ...

Attention! All you older folks (like me) reading this who were taught penmanship in school! The National Archives needs you!!

To date, more than 4,000 Revolutionary War Pension Project volunteers have typed up the content of over 80,000 pages of ...

The National Archives is looking for cursive readers to transcribe veteran pension files from the Revolutionary War that date ...

“Reading cursive is a superpower,” Isaacs added. The volunteer process is quite simple. Those interested should register for a free online account with the National Archives and then begin ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...